Triforce! - YoGPoD 21: Halloween Spacktacular
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                                         This is the Yogscast
                                         
    
                                         at the Yogpod Spooktacular.
                                         
                                         I thought we did that Spooktacular.
                                         
                                         No, we can't call it Spooktacular.
                                         
                                         It's a red bar call there. Spactacular.
                                         
                                         I'll show you that. The Spactacular.
                                         
                                         That's more like it.
                                         
                                         This is the Yogpod Spactacular.
                                         
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                                         That's a door opening.
                                         
                                         Sounded like you were standing on a rat.
                                         
                                         That's Thunder. Okay, yeah, I got that, that was quite good
                                         
                                         Did you like that?
                                         
                                         Yeah, it was quite good
                                         
                                         Thank you
                                         
                                         So have you ever dressed up as anything for Halloween or anything?
                                         
                                         I dressed up as Marilyn Monroe one year
                                         
    
                                         Okay
                                         
                                         Yeah, but as she is now So I was like a zombie Marilyn Monroe one year. Okay.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but as she is now.
                                         
                                         So I was like a zombie Marilyn Monroe.
                                         
                                         I was all decayed. I think it would be scarier if you were dressed up
                                         
                                         as like how she was before
                                         
                                         in like a puffy white dress
                                         
                                         that was like blowing up in the wind
                                         
    
                                         and big red lips.
                                         
                                         The thing is, I mean, I'm quite a
                                         
                                         quite a big guy, let's be honest.
                                         
                                         So when I dress up as someone I'm dressed up as a fat version of them.
                                         
                                         So one year, I dressed up as the guy from Scream, right?
                                         
                                         The murderer from Scream.
                                         
                                         So I was wearing the, you know, the mask, the Scream mask, the monk thing.
                                         
                                         And I had the cowl, the black cowl and the black
                                         
    
                                         cloak, and
                                         
                                         unfortunately my belly was just
                                         
                                         poking out.
                                         
                                         So I was just like a fat version of
                                         
                                         the guy from fucking Scream.
                                         
                                         Do you have to announce that?
                                         
                                         Like another year, like a group of us.
                                         
                                         When you're telling people what costume you're going to be.
                                         
    
                                         You know, what are you coming out as?
                                         
                                         Oh, I'm coming as a fat version of Einstein.
                                         
                                         Yeah, exactly.
                                         
                                         Oh, it's terrible.
                                         
                                         I'm coming as a fat teenage mutant ninja turtle.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
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                                         Yogpod. Yogpod! This is the Yogpod.
                                         
                                         Hello, you're listening to the Yogpod.
                                         
                                         Hello,
                                         
                                         I'm Lewis, and with me
                                         
                                         is Simon. Hi, I'm
                                         
                                         Simon. Simon, what? Hello, I'm Lewis, and with me is Simon. Hi, I'm Simon.
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         Hello, I am Lewis.
                                         
    
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         So, are there any other bullshit things put there by Jesus to stop people from realising that the
                                         
                                         earth is young. So they find the fossils and they're like, oh look, a dinosaur. And look,
                                         
                                         it's millions of years old. So it, I'm not sure why God would do that though. Why would
                                         
                                         God want to confuse people
                                         
                                         Why would he plant fake evidence
                                         
                                         To cover up the truth
                                         
                                         Because surely he'd want people to know
                                         
    
                                         That the earth is only
                                         
                                         What 6,000 years old
                                         
                                         I think people are saying it is
                                         
                                         You know people in general
                                         
                                         You bump into them on the street
                                         
                                         How old is the earth
                                         
                                         Oh it's 6,000 years old I mean I don't see in general. You bump into them on the street. How old is the Earth?
                                         
                                         Oh, it's 6,000 years old!
                                         
    
                                         I mean, I don't see why God has a problem
                                         
                                         with this. I mean, God's like a celestial
                                         
                                         being. Why do Christians always
                                         
                                         say, oh, well, you know, he created it
                                         
                                         in seven days, therefore
                                         
                                         that was when Adam and Eve came, and then
                                         
                                         the flood, and blah, blah, blah.
                                         
                                         Why do they...
                                         
    
                                         Six days.
                                         
                                         Why do they complain?
                                         
                                         You created the world in six days.
                                         
                                         Why can't the world be millions of years old?
                                         
                                         Because the Bible says that it isn't.
                                         
                                         I mean, the Bible itself, it states all the generations of people who were born.
                                         
                                         You know, X begat Y begat Z.
                                         
                                         X begat Y begat Z and so if you add it all up
                                         
    
                                         for each generation
                                         
                                         it's only a few thousand years
                                         
                                         and then suddenly we're up to
                                         
                                         New Testament
                                         
                                         Oh I see, so it's got a full history
                                         
                                         of everyone who existed before
                                         
                                         going all the way up to Adam and Eve
                                         
                                         Well, it
                                         
    
                                         I think it includes the people who descended from Adam.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         It lists all of their descendants
                                         
                                         up to, like, Moses or whatever in the Old Testament.
                                         
                                         Or Noah.
                                         
                                         Not Moses.
                                         
                                         It says Noah, and then you find out that
                                         
                                         Moses is from, you know from A descendant of Noah
                                         
    
                                         Everybody
                                         
                                         Is a descendant of Noah because he was the only
                                         
                                         Person
                                         
                                         Along with his wife and his
                                         
                                         Three sons
                                         
                                         Who survived
                                         
                                         Which meant that he
                                         
                                         His sons and his wife had to repopulate the world
                                         
    
                                         Amongst themselves
                                         
                                         And that's a bit fucked up when you think about it
                                         
                                         isn't it? I mean you think Adam
                                         
                                         and Eve, just the two of them
                                         
                                         starting life over is
                                         
                                         horribly incestuous after
                                         
                                         a couple of generations but
                                         
                                         they had to do it all over again
                                         
    
                                         with Noah
                                         
                                         Yeah but look, how did
                                         
                                         life start then? How did the first man come to be?
                                         
                                         He was made of clay
                                         
                                         That God kind of breathed life into
                                         
                                         No, I mean in evolutionary terms
                                         
                                         No, that is what happened, Lewis
                                         
                                         Oh, well no
                                         
    
                                         God took a pile of clay
                                         
                                         He made like a morph type person
                                         
                                         From Tony Hart
                                         
                                         the little morph fella
                                         
                                         you remember him?
                                         
                                         right yeah
                                         
                                         the googly eyes
                                         
                                         and he was made out of
                                         
    
                                         plasticine
                                         
                                         yeah yeah yeah
                                         
                                         well they made a little
                                         
                                         like Wallace
                                         
                                         from Wallace and Gromit
                                         
                                         right okay
                                         
                                         so you're saying that
                                         
                                         they made a little Wallace
                                         
    
                                         that God created Wallace
                                         
                                         and then
                                         
                                         a female version of Wallace.
                                         
                                         Pretty much, yeah.
                                         
                                         Oh no, the female was made from the male's rib or something, wasn't she?
                                         
                                         Yeah, because he needed some clay.
                                         
                                         For some reason, it was easier to take clay from Adam rather than just take clay that was lying around in the dirt.
                                         
                                         So he broke off the rib and he formed a woman from just that one rib.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, you may think that's a bit unlikely, but then, you know, he's God.
                                         
                                         He can do that. He's like a magician.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         It's like Paul Daniels.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Going back to, like, actual evolution, though,
                                         
                                         I can understand how...
                                         
                                         I mean, I really should know the answer to this,
                                         
    
                                         but it's kind of a question that's been bugging me,
                                         
                                         and it's probably quite a simple answer,
                                         
                                         so if someone knows the answer, write it.
                                         
                                         But when man evolved, okay,
                                         
                                         it's obviously to do with mutation, isn't it?
                                         
                                         So whatever the species was that was around before us,
                                         
                                         like Homo erectus or whatever,
                                         
                                         they obviously had a mutated
                                         
    
                                         baby that was a human,
                                         
                                         right? Wow.
                                         
                                         Is that right?
                                         
                                         So you think
                                         
                                         that evolution works, is that
                                         
                                         two cavemen, Neanderthals,
                                         
                                         were at it one day,
                                         
                                         and then nine months later,
                                         
    
                                         a perfectly normal, modern-day human baby was born from them.
                                         
                                         Yeah, basically. Is that not right?
                                         
                                         Well, I mean, you think back.
                                         
                                         How did the cavemen come into being?
                                         
                                         Obviously, two chimpanzees were at it,
                                         
                                         and then one day they gave birth to a troglodyte.
                                         
                                         No, no, no, it's very, very gradual though.
                                         
                                         I mean, there are literally hundreds of steps.
                                         
    
                                         Literally hundreds of steps.
                                         
                                         Over the millions of years.
                                         
                                         Literally hundreds of steps.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but mankind hasn't been around that long as a species.
                                         
                                         About a million years.
                                         
                                         It's complicated.
                                         
                                         It's very, very complicated.
                                         
                                         I mean...
                                         
    
                                         You don't know either, do you?
                                         
                                         I'm asking you as if you know, because you're, like, old and wise,
                                         
                                         but you don't have any idea, do you?
                                         
                                         Okay, well, think of a balloon, right?
                                         
                                         You've got a balloon, and it's not blown up.
                                         
                                         It's like a floppy little balloon.
                                         
                                         And then you blow it up,
                                         
                                         and you've got, like, a full-sized filled
                                         
    
                                         balloon. It's not
                                         
                                         as though one day there were two flat
                                         
                                         uninflated balloons
                                         
                                         that fucked, and then
                                         
                                         nine months later, a fully inflated
                                         
                                         balloon was born.
                                         
                                         It's like, gradually, that balloon is
                                         
                                         inflated. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, what?
                                         
    
                                         Well, think, you're blowing up a balloon, right?
                                         
                                         I don't understand your analogy at all.
                                         
                                         There's a process where it goes from uninflated to inflated.
                                         
                                         Sorry, sorry, sorry, stop, stop, stop.
                                         
                                         Okay?
                                         
                                         So that process, it doesn't just transition from uninflated to inflated.
                                         
                                         There's like a process in which it slowly inflates.
                                         
                                         You're kind of seeing it as though it's
                                         
    
                                         like going from one
                                         
                                         to two. It's not like a transition
                                         
                                         from something to
                                         
                                         something completely different. No, it's not like
                                         
                                         two monkeys had sex and produced
                                         
                                         a human baby. It's not like...
                                         
                                         It's like two monkeys had sex and produced a slightly different monkey
                                         
                                         which produced a slightly different monkey. Monkey, monkey,
                                         
    
                                         monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey for monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, for ages,
                                         
                                         and then human. Or whatever.
                                         
                                         Yeah. But the
                                         
                                         previous monkey was basically a human.
                                         
                                         Now, what is this balloon analogy?
                                         
                                         It's shown that there's
                                         
                                         a process, a very
                                         
                                         long, complex process, going
                                         
    
                                         from one state to another state,
                                         
                                         and that it doesn't just automatically,
                                         
                                         immediately go from uninflated to inflated.
                                         
                                         I think...
                                         
                                         I mean, if you were to break it down
                                         
                                         to half-inflated,
                                         
                                         a quarter-inflated, an eighth-inflated,
                                         
                                         there's no way
                                         
    
                                         that you can...
                                         
                                         You're saying that the previous species to us...
                                         
                                         I'm not sure who it was. I think it was Homo erectus who were before us.
                                         
                                         That's just a name put on something
                                         
                                         that is human like which we
                                         
                                         clearly did evolve from it's not as though one day two homo erectus is fucked and then nine
                                         
                                         months later the human modern human was born it's just that is an example one example of you know
                                         
                                         a state of evolutionary you know process of humans that has just been found so you found a state of evolutionary process of humans that has just been found.
                                         
    
                                         So you found a few of them from all this same, roughly the same time period.
                                         
                                         And because they're like us, but they are different, they've put a name on it.
                                         
                                         They're still kind of humans, it's just that they're an older version of humans.
                                         
                                         that they're an older version of humans.
                                         
                                         I mean, it's kind of difficult to tell, you know,
                                         
                                         when does one species become a next one, or the previous one.
                                         
                                         So what you're saying is that, basically,
                                         
                                         the entire tribe, I guess, of people had a collective mutation between them,
                                         
    
                                         and those mutations persisted
                                         
                                         until the entire tribe evolved into Homo sapiens.
                                         
                                         Is that what you're saying?
                                         
                                         No.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         Someone write it and tell me
                                         
                                         because I want to know
                                         
                                         and I'm fucking stupid.
                                         
    
                                         But, yeah.
                                         
                                         and I'm fucking stupid but yeah
                                         
                                         you're listening
                                         
                                         to the Yogg-Mod
                                         
                                         Halloween
                                         
                                         Spooktacular
                                         
                                         ah
                                         
                                         fuck people wrote in some Halloween stories by the way Fuck.
                                         
    
                                         People wrote in some Halloween stories, by the way.
                                         
                                         Oh my god, did they?
                                         
                                         Oh, this is good.
                                         
                                         This is good.
                                         
                                         Well, there are not that many.
                                         
                                         There's one, isn't there?
                                         
                                         There's one.
                                         
                                         Yeah, the rest of them are just
                                         
    
                                         Weird
                                         
                                         This one guy writes
                                         
                                         The kettle presses against my bible
                                         
                                         Before the sober species
                                         
                                         Um
                                         
                                         I don't know what that means
                                         
                                         That sounds quite deep
                                         
                                         This month's
                                         
    
                                         14 times
                                         
                                         Of unusual weird news
                                         
                                         and strange phenomena.
                                         
                                         It asks this month
                                         
                                         mermaids, myth or reality?
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Myth.
                                         
                                         Myth.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         There we go.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         That's covered that.
                                         
                                         I don't understand the
                                         
                                         attraction of a mermaid
                                         
                                         because surely they don't have a vagina.
                                         
                                         Am I being stupid here?
                                         
    
                                         They do, it's just a fish one.
                                         
                                         Right, okay.
                                         
                                         Do fish have vaginas?
                                         
                                         Yeah, but they're a bit scaly and silvery.
                                         
                                         Well, I don't sort of get it.
                                         
                                         I mean...
                                         
                                         It can't be nice.
                                         
                                         Mermaids.
                                         
    
                                         Like, I don't see why there's all this big deal about them.
                                         
                                         Well, when you've been at sea...
                                         
                                         You've been at sea for months on end.
                                         
                                         They probably seem pretty attractive to you.
                                         
                                         They've got lovely tits.
                                         
                                         And beautiful faces and long hair.
                                         
                                         So, you know...
                                         
                                         Yeah, I suppose if you've been at sea for, like,
                                         
    
                                         fucking ages, you just want to have...
                                         
                                         You know, a dream is that some woman
                                         
                                         would climb out of the sea. I suppose that would be, like,
                                         
                                         a dream of yours.
                                         
                                         So what's this story that you have?
                                         
                                         Okay, it's quite short,
                                         
                                         predictably.
                                         
                                         It says... This is from eric frost okay
                                         
    
                                         shall i get some scary music on yeah
                                         
                                         while i was home alone i heard some funny noises coming from the basement. I was around 12 years old.
                                         
                                         So I decided to go down and have a look.
                                         
                                         As I walked down the stairs, a cold wind blew in,
                                         
                                         and I thought it was strange since we did not have any windows in the basement.
                                         
                                         But nevertheless, I carried on. As I reached the bottom of the basement. But nevertheless, I carried on.
                                         
                                         As I reached the bottom of the basement,
                                         
                                         the washing machine was still on.
                                         
    
                                         Mom had forgot to turn it off, I thought,
                                         
                                         so I turned it off.
                                         
                                         Now, I couldn't hear anything,
                                         
                                         so I thought that the noises was just the washing machine.
                                         
                                         But sudden, some big blue fuck charged towards me, and I like screamed like hell,
                                         
                                         and when it fell over me, I swear I was nearly shitting my pants.
                                         
                                         Then, it turns out to be my stupid brother covered in a blue sheet.
                                         
                                         So later that day, I needed some new pants,
                                         
    
                                         and my brother got a trip to the hospital.
                                         
                                         Kind regards, Eric from Denmark.
                                         
                                         So he beat up his brother so badly that he had to go to hospital.
                                         
                                         I mean, that's the horrible thing.
                                         
                                         That's the horrible thing about this story.
                                         
                                         Not the fact that, you know,
                                         
                                         his little brother was...
                                         
                                         He had a blue sheet over his head.
                                         
    
                                         And that scared him.
                                         
                                         I mean, what the fuck?
                                         
                                         That was a good story, man. I think that's a great story.
                                         
                                         Thank you, Eric.
                                         
                                         It's a terrible story. It's lame.
                                         
                                         You're lame, Eric.
                                         
                                         What a terrible story.
                                         
                                         Don't ever, ever email us again.
                                         
    
                                         You're banned from emailing us.
                                         
                                         You're banned from emailing us.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         I hate you, Eric.
                                         
                                         I hate you.
                                         
                                         I hope a real ghost attacks you
                                         
                                         and it looks like your brother with a blue sheet on his head.
                                         
                                         And you're like, oh, stop it, Gary.
                                         
    
                                         Because that's his name.
                                         
                                         But it turns out that it's a ghost.
                                         
                                         And he, like, rips your face off.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         You cunt.
                                         
                                         This is a story which I'm sure I've heard before.
                                         
                                         Thanks for writing to us, Eric, by the way.
                                         
                                         Thanks.
                                         
    
                                         I'm sure I've heard this story before in some shape or form,
                                         
                                         so it can't be... I'm not sure this is...
                                         
                                         I've heard it before.
                                         
                                         Anyway.
                                         
                                         I have a pretty good story from a little
                                         
                                         while back. I was
                                         
                                         talking to a random girl on
                                         
                                         MSN for a few moments
                                         
    
                                         and began to flirt with
                                         
                                         her, and to be honest, I started
                                         
                                         saying some dirty things. It was all fun to flirt with her, and to be honest I started saying some dirty things.
                                         
                                         It was all fun until I asked her, Hey, what's your ASL? She said, Fifteen. F. Melbourne.
                                         
                                         I'm eighteen, and live in Melbourne by the way. I had a feeling I should stop, but I
                                         
                                         kept flirting. I asked her if she had any siblings, and she said she had a brother.
                                         
                                         Anyway, I kept talking and asking her things, until I came to the conclusion that she was my sister.
                                         
                                         I walked into her room and asked her some questions, and then looked over at her shoulder and saw that she was talking to me on MSN.
                                         
    
                                         over at her shoulder and saw that she was talking to me on MSN.
                                         
                                         I immediately went
                                         
                                         back to my room, said I had to go,
                                         
                                         blocked her, and never
                                         
                                         spoke with her again.
                                         
                                         It's a terrifying story.
                                         
                                         There's a variance to this story all
                                         
                                         over the place, isn't there?
                                         
    
                                         This is like a standard plot.
                                         
                                         Like the guy who goes into
                                         
                                         a gent's toilet
                                         
                                         at the park and there's a gent's toilet at the park
                                         
                                         and there's a hole
                                         
                                         in the cubicle
                                         
                                         and a dick pops through
                                         
                                         and the guy thinks, oh, what the hell?
                                         
    
                                         And he sucks the dick
                                         
                                         and he swallows
                                         
                                         when the guy's done
                                         
                                         and he leaves the toilet
                                         
                                         and
                                         
                                         he bumps into his dad who's just leaving the toilet at the same time.
                                         
                                         Like, coming out of the toilet.
                                         
                                         Yeah, or something.
                                         
    
                                         Or, no, I don't think they'd leave at the same time, would they?
                                         
                                         I think he wanted to, like, find out who it was, so he, like, hides in the bushes or something and watches who comes out of the toilet.
                                         
                                         His dad comes out, and then the vicar comes out, and then George Michaels comes out of the toilet And then His dad comes out And then the vicar Comes out
                                         
                                         And then George Michaels
                                         
                                         Comes out
                                         
                                         And Tom Cruise
                                         
                                         No
                                         
                                         Tom Cruise will never come out
                                         
    
                                         Awful
                                         
                                         Awful
                                         
                                         This is one of
                                         
                                         It's one of those stories
                                         
                                         Like from
                                         
                                         I've got to thank someone
                                         
                                         I've got to thank someone
                                         
                                         You know
                                         
    
                                         Jack from Oldham
                                         
                                         Thank you very much for your donations.
                                         
                                         Plural.
                                         
                                         He donated...
                                         
                                         I think he might have accidentally clicked the button
                                         
                                         six times
                                         
                                         because he donated six times.
                                         
                                         Holy crap.
                                         
    
                                         Thank you very much, Jack from Oldham.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         Thanks for the cash.
                                         
                                         I've got your phone number,
                                         
                                         which is a little bit creepy,
                                         
                                         but I won't call you, don't worry.
                                         
                                         Or will I?
                                         
                                         Don't call him. That would be very weird.
                                         
    
                                         Okay, we've got a letter from one of our long-term listeners.
                                         
                                         Long-time listeners. Long-term?
                                         
                                         It's like a mental illness.
                                         
                                         He's got chronic...
                                         
                                         Listener.
                                         
                                         He's called ashley he wants to know uh if we have any other consoles such as xbox or ps3 he has a ps3 and would love to play with us he's also getting
                                         
                                         an xbox for christmas um also something you could talk about in the Yoggpod is X-Factor. Just a suggestion.
                                         
                                         Since X-Factor is shown worldwide in most countries,
                                         
    
                                         I think that your American fans would know what you're talking about.
                                         
                                         It could be funny, the things Honeydew comes up with about those damn annoying twins,
                                         
                                         John and Edward.
                                         
                                         Do you know anything about X-Factor at all, or do you have a console, Simon?
                                         
                                         I don't have a current-gen console.
                                         
                                         I used to have an Xbox.
                                         
                                         I have one right now, still have it.
                                         
                                         I'm looking at it.
                                         
    
                                         It's covered in dust.
                                         
                                         It's huge.
                                         
                                         It's a huge grey monolith
                                         
                                         just sat there on the floor glaring at me.
                                         
                                         It's on the floor?
                                         
                                         It's on the floor.
                                         
                                         It's on old dusty carpet that hasn't been hoovered in four years. What else is on the floor It's on the floor On old dusty carpet
                                         
                                         That hasn't been hoovered in four years
                                         
    
                                         What else is on your floor?
                                         
                                         It's got a dusty controller on it
                                         
                                         And dusty games
                                         
                                         Two television sets are on the floor
                                         
                                         Right
                                         
                                         Do either of them work?
                                         
                                         Kind of, yeah, kind of work
                                         
                                         I've got some graphic novels
                                         
    
                                         I've got a guide to Halo 2, I've got
                                         
                                         an old yellowy keyboard,
                                         
                                         I've got
                                         
                                         an office chair, I've got about
                                         
                                         200 CDs strewn
                                         
                                         around. What kind of CDs?
                                         
                                         Game CDs? I've got an old pair of
                                         
                                         corduroy trousers.
                                         
    
                                         They'll no longer fit you.
                                         
                                         Basically. Oh, we've got a PS2. no longer fit you basically
                                         
                                         oh we've got a PS2
                                         
                                         I've got a PS2 over there
                                         
                                         I forgot I had that
                                         
                                         it's a slimline one as well
                                         
                                         ironically
                                         
                                         okay
                                         
    
                                         the next question
                                         
                                         X Factor
                                         
                                         we haven't talked about X Factor
                                         
                                         there was this one request alright X Factor. We haven't talked about X Factor.
                                         
                                         There was just one request.
                                         
                                         All right, X Factor.
                                         
                                         I don't really watch it.
                                         
                                         Hannah watches it, and she tells us about it. Hannah can talk about it, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         I thought you were going to say something else.
                                         
                                         Hannah can fuck right off.
                                         
                                         I thought you were going to say that.
                                         
                                         Why would I say that?
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         You and Hannah aren't getting on too well at the moment.
                                         
                                         That's alright.
                                         
                                         She tells us about X Factor
                                         
    
                                         and I've seen in the papers
                                         
                                         about those two twins with their spiky blonde hair
                                         
                                         and they can't sing.
                                         
                                         Have you?
                                         
                                         They can't sing.
                                         
                                         I haven't seen it.
                                         
                                         They can dance a little.
                                         
                                         Right, okay.
                                         
    
                                         What is there to say about X Factor?
                                         
                                         It's kind of shit. I mean, do you about X Factor? It's kind of shit.
                                         
                                         I mean, do you think X Factor has drained all of the talent that was available in the past few years?
                                         
                                         Yeah, but people don't watch it for that.
                                         
                                         People watch it for the people who are terrible.
                                         
                                         Is Britain sucked dry of talent?
                                         
                                         People aren't interested in people succeeding on the X Factor.
                                         
                                         They're only interested in people who fail and are abysmal.
                                         
    
                                         Okay, alright, well that's that.
                                         
                                         Some fat builder in his 40s who's singing like Frank Sinatra.
                                         
                                         In conclusion, X Factor can suck my Disney.
                                         
                                         This guy asked, his name's DJ Cinema, he says,
                                         
                                         I was listening to one of your... First he asks,
                                         
                                         when are we going to see Hannah's bikini pictures?
                                         
                                         Oh, Christ.
                                         
                                         Well, she said that she was working on it,
                                         
    
                                         and that was months ago.
                                         
                                         I think she was trying to Photoshop
                                         
                                         her face onto, like, Jessica Biel or someone.
                                         
                                         But she couldn't even be arsed to do that.
                                         
                                         So the answer is probably next summer. or someone. But she couldn't even be asked to do that. So,
                                         
                                         the answer is probably next summer.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Or, knowing the Yoggpod,
                                         
    
                                         completely at the wrong time,
                                         
                                         i.e. in the depths of winter.
                                         
                                         Oh, we should say,
                                         
                                         people should vote for us on Podcast Alley
                                         
                                         and
                                         
                                         also leave reviews and ratings on iTunes
                                         
                                         for us. Thank you.
                                         
                                         Also, thank you
                                         
    
                                         to Joris. That may
                                         
                                         not be how you pronounce his name, but it's
                                         
                                         spelt Joris
                                         
                                         from Dutchland, who's
                                         
                                         donated to the Yogpod. Thank you, Joris.
                                         
                                         Right, right, right. Stop with this.
                                         
                                         In one of the old episodes
                                         
                                         We talked about you doing cross country
                                         
    
                                         And you said that we'd save that
                                         
                                         For a later time
                                         
                                         And we've never come back to it
                                         
                                         So
                                         
                                         Have you got anything to say
                                         
                                         About doing cross country
                                         
                                         This guy's calling us
                                         
                                         On everything
                                         
    
                                         All of our little slip-ups.
                                         
                                         We said that we'd show Hannah with her tits out
                                         
                                         and we didn't do it.
                                         
                                         And now he's calling us on it.
                                         
                                         So, you want me to talk about
                                         
                                         cross-country running?
                                         
                                         It was horrible.
                                         
                                         Really, the only good thing
                                         
    
                                         about it was seeing
                                         
                                         girls run around
                                         
                                         in tight clothing. That was the only thing I found interesting about seeing girls run around in tight clothing.
                                         
                                         That was the only thing I found interesting.
                                         
                                         The only redeeming feature.
                                         
                                         Man, cross-country was hard.
                                         
                                         We were forced to do it from a fairly young age at school.
                                         
                                         I don't know about you, but, you know,
                                         
    
                                         it seemed to, like, go on year after year.
                                         
                                         We were still doing it.
                                         
                                         Man, it was painful.
                                         
                                         We did it, like, in all weather, whether it was raining or snowing.
                                         
                                         Have I told you that story?
                                         
                                         I have told you the story about when I did Cross Country in the Snow.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's on a podcast, Lou.
                                         
                                         It's on the fucking podcast.
                                         
    
                                         Well, if it's on the podcast, why are we covering it again?
                                         
                                         Because, yet again, you started talking about your exploits
                                         
                                         and my own stories
                                         
                                         just got left behind and forgotten
                                         
                                         about. And you're doing it again now.
                                         
                                         Go on then, Simon.
                                         
                                         You have the open mic.
                                         
                                         Okay, well there was this one time in which
                                         
    
                                         there was me, Kevin
                                         
                                         and Neil.
                                         
                                         Hello Kevin, Kendall,
                                         
                                         and Neil Warren, you're out there.
                                         
                                         We went for a run, and the three of us...
                                         
                                         The thing is, Neil was quite muscular but small,
                                         
                                         and Kevin was quite skinny but lanky.
                                         
                                         And there's me, this kind of fat, weird little boy.
                                         
    
                                         We were quite an odd group, and we were...
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         So there's one tall, thin guy,
                                         
                                         one really circular guy,
                                         
                                         and one small, little
                                         
                                         muscly guy. Basically,
                                         
                                         if you were to look at fantasy archetypes,
                                         
                                         fantasy archetypes,
                                         
    
                                         Neil Warren would be
                                         
                                         a hobbit, Kevin Kendall
                                         
                                         would be an elf, like Elrond.
                                         
                                         He looks a bit like Elrond, actually.
                                         
                                         And I would be Gimli.
                                         
                                         So,
                                         
                                         you've got the three of us.
                                         
                                         We're going on a little journey
                                         
    
                                         to take our
                                         
                                         legs to
                                         
                                         Mount Lower Slaughter,
                                         
                                         as it was known as, not Mount Doom.
                                         
                                         So we're running to Lower Slaughter.
                                         
                                         And it was an interesting run
                                         
                                         It's basically in the middle of nowhere
                                         
                                         There's no roads
                                         
    
                                         It's just across fields
                                         
                                         And this is from Borton to Lower Slaughter
                                         
                                         And these places, they're tiny little towns
                                         
                                         Lower Slaughter's a tiny little village
                                         
                                         And the only people we would see
                                         
                                         Is other runners, that would be it
                                         
                                         You wouldn't see any members of the public
                                         
                                         Just walking their dog or
                                         
    
                                         anything. You'd see no one.
                                         
                                         No one at all. No dogs, no
                                         
                                         farmers brandishing shotguns.
                                         
                                         Although maybe they watched
                                         
                                         in horror.
                                         
                                         With their hands in their pockets
                                         
                                         rummaging.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
    
                                         So the three of us, we go for our little
                                         
                                         run.
                                         
                                         And Okay. So the three of us, we go for our little run. And there was...
                                         
                                         We were basically trying to work out how we could cheat the system.
                                         
                                         How we could...
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Take a shortcut.
                                         
                                         Because the teachers weren't there following you.
                                         
    
                                         All you had to do was basically be gone for the length of time that it would take you
                                         
                                         to run it and we were trying to figure out okay say we don't want to run it what are we going to
                                         
                                         do are we just going to sit on this you know bridleway where traditionally you know horses
                                         
                                         would come by are we just going to sit on this like muddy path and just wait half an hour and
                                         
                                         then walk back and in the end we just couldn't be
                                         
                                         bothered we just couldn't we couldn't come up with any cunning plan there was no you know how
                                         
                                         about we go to the pub any cool ideas such as that or hey let's let's go and get after some mischief
                                         
                                         let's go and steal some apples from farmer gilesiles. None of this. We just thought, oh, we may as well just do it.
                                         
    
                                         And this is the great anecdote of mine.
                                         
                                         So in the end, we just ran it because we couldn't think of any cunning plan of how to get out of it.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         So we just ran it anyway and got back.
                                         
                                         And we felt sheepish.
                                         
                                         Even though we never did anything wrong, the thought was there.
                                         
                                         We were scheming.
                                         
                                         Well, that anecdote is...
                                         
    
                                         That's a terrible story. It's paralleling my
                                         
                                         skill of telling anecdotes.
                                         
                                         Some guy
                                         
                                         who's called
                                         
                                         the Gary Modder
                                         
                                         writes and says
                                         
                                         he liked the story and
                                         
                                         wondered if we were going to do any more.
                                         
    
                                         He also says... What, he liked the story that I just told were going to do any more. He also says...
                                         
                                         What, he liked the story that I just told?
                                         
                                         No, sorry.
                                         
                                         That's amazing. That's quick.
                                         
                                         That's quick feedback.
                                         
                                         The story from episode 13.
                                         
                                         The long story.
                                         
                                         Oh, right. The last watch.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         We haven't had...
                                         
                                         Well, you haven't told me that we've had
                                         
                                         an awful lot of feedback about that.
                                         
                                         We've had a bit.
                                         
                                         I guess because it wasn't funny.
                                         
                                         No, it's been largely positive, but it wasn't funny.
                                         
                                         So people didn't really...
                                         
    
                                         You know, people were expecting the usual drivel chat, and it wasn't the same.
                                         
                                         Anyway, he says,
                                         
                                         When I play Call of Duty 4 whilst listening to you guys,
                                         
                                         my score goes up from 25 kills 40 deaths to 76 kills
                                         
                                         48 deaths. There you go.
                                         
                                         Keep up the good work. That's a lesson for everyone.
                                         
                                         If you're doing badly
                                         
                                         on your FPSs, doing
                                         
    
                                         PvP, if you're doing badly, all you
                                         
                                         gotta do is listen to the Yoggpod and
                                         
                                         your score will almost double.
                                         
                                         Or more than double.
                                         
                                         I can't remember the
                                         
                                         numbers, but it was close to doubling.
                                         
                                         Either way.
                                         
                                         Indeed.
                                         
    
                                         We are enabling the pwn.
                                         
                                         That's how I like to see it.
                                         
                                         We are pwn enablers.
                                         
                                         We have to do it by proxy because neither
                                         
                                         of us are very good at pwnage.
                                         
                                         But we can pass on
                                         
                                         this magical power.
                                         
                                         This like what do you call it, mojo,
                                         
    
                                         this mojo of ours, we can pass on to you, the listener.
                                         
                                         Mm, mm-hmm, mm.
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         I, do you know, okay, this is something interesting.
                                         
                                         You know there's a World of Warcraft dating website?
                                         
                                         It's called Datecraft.
                                         
                                         Oh, my God.
                                         
                                         Have you heard of this?
                                         
    
                                         I do now.
                                         
                                         I signed you up for it, yeah. I'm sorry? sorry i'm sorry put a picture of you on it yeah what you've actually put my picture on it
                                         
                                         yeah i signed you up and put your picture on it i've had a message already it says hello dear
                                         
                                         nice to meet you my name is mary i just went through your profile when I was searching for love. I have no option...
                                         
                                         Oh god, I can see it! It's on the front page! It's on the front fucking page! Me with the Dalek!
                                         
                                         Well, that's probably just because I just logged in just now to check it.
                                         
                                         It's nothing...
                                         
                                         Oh no! Oh god! Don't panic Simon, don't panic!
                                         
    
                                         I saw your profile today, that is why I wish to have a relationship with you.
                                         
                                         I will also like to know you more.
                                         
                                         I will also send you my pictures.
                                         
                                         I believe we can move from here.
                                         
                                         Bear in mind that love has no colours barrier,
                                         
                                         no educational background barrier,
                                         
                                         no social economic barrier,
                                         
                                         religious language, nationality or distance
                                         
    
                                         barrier. The only important
                                         
                                         thing there is, is love
                                         
                                         I am waiting for your mail
                                         
                                         at mary underscore simon
                                         
                                         for you at yahoo.com
                                         
                                         Thanks for your
                                         
                                         cooperation. So her surname
                                         
                                         is my first name
                                         
    
                                         Well, do you know what? I think
                                         
                                         it's like one of these russian brides or
                                         
                                         something who are trying to like get you in to like send them money to come to your country
                                         
                                         it was a bit of a weird message you know love has no color barrier or you know it's like what
                                         
                                         sorry what why are you saying that it's not really really something you say On a first message It's like oh hello
                                         
                                         Love has no barriers
                                         
                                         Two people have actually commented
                                         
                                         On our profile as well
                                         
    
                                         Your profile
                                         
                                         Our profile
                                         
                                         Sorry
                                         
                                         Two people have commented on your profile
                                         
                                         One is a guy called BlackPhoenix505
                                         
                                         Who has a very sexy neck beard and he wrote
                                         
                                         exterminate with oh right because the dalek i see what he did there yeah yeah because it's a picture
                                         
                                         of you with a dalek and the other person is jade um chantelle from yogs or whatever who from our
                                         
    
                                         guild jade do you know who that is i don't know quite who that is. I think she's got a mage.
                                         
                                         Oh! I think I know who it is, yeah. She's a terrible, terrible mage. But I think I know her, yeah.
                                         
                                         Uh, it's... I'll send you... hang on, check my comment. You might not be able to see it because you're not logged in.
                                         
                                         No, I can't see it because I'm not logged in, even though I have a fucking profile on there.
                                         
                                         Oh, damn.
                                         
                                         What's the login for it?
                                         
                                         Hang on, let me see if I can get the picture.
                                         
                                         Am I not allowed to log in?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, you are, but because I accidentally
                                         
                                         set the password to the one which I use
                                         
                                         for fucking everything. Alright, hang on, let me tell you it.
                                         
                                         That's your
                                         
                                         password for everything.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
    
                                         Just don't log into anything, alright? Damn it. Everyone has, like, password for everything. What? What?
                                         
                                         Just don't log into anything, alright?
                                         
                                         Dammit. Everyone has like... The thing is, everyone has a really
                                         
                                         dumb password that they've used for years
                                         
                                         and they've just like
                                         
                                         added to it over the years. Like they've put a
                                         
                                         capital letter in the front or they've added like
                                         
                                         an extra number on the end
                                         
    
                                         or an extra S on the end or something.
                                         
                                         Oh my god.
                                         
                                         Jade Chantel.
                                         
                                         She looks very emo.
                                         
                                         Very emo.
                                         
                                         Look at her appearance.
                                         
                                         It says body type voluptuous.
                                         
                                         Now who puts that on a dating site?
                                         
    
                                         People who are honest, Lewis.
                                         
                                         People who are honest.
                                         
                                         No, but you know what I mean?
                                         
                                         On a dating site you have to like...
                                         
                                         Everyone puts one below what they are. Oh god. So her and how does the scale work how does the scale work using like like the fatness scale i mean
                                         
                                         it goes from like i'd imagine it doesn't have obese as an option no but i mean it goes like
                                         
                                         chubby cuddly voluptuous bouncy, bubbly's in there somewhere.
                                         
                                         Okay, look at Jade Chantel, right?
                                         
    
                                         Look down on her page and there's kitten underscore.
                                         
                                         Is that a man or a woman?
                                         
                                         It looks like Gok Wan, doesn't it?
                                         
                                         Oh my god!
                                         
                                         So it's rather difficult to tell, I suppose.
                                         
                                         I guess it does, yeah.
                                         
                                         Oh dear.
                                         
                                         Oh, it is a woman.
                                         
    
                                         It says gender woman.
                                         
                                         Wow, I thought it was a man.
                                         
                                         Oh dear, oh dear.
                                         
                                         Well, there we are.
                                         
                                         So hopefully you'll be able to find love through that.
                                         
                                         It's that sight.
                                         
                                         I can't.
                                         
                                         That'll be great.
                                         
    
                                         Oh god. that site. I can't. That would be great.
                                         
                                         Oh, God.
                                         
                                         Picture of me with a Dalek giving a thumbs up.
                                         
                                         What a catch.
                                         
                                         What a catch.
                                         
                                         Someone sent us an email.
                                         
                                         This guy called Timothy Jester.
                                         
                                         That's a good name, Timothy Jester.
                                         
    
                                         Apparently that's his full name.
                                         
                                         Really?
                                         
                                         He said, I posted an iTunes review, but they rejected it, so he sent it to us instead.
                                         
                                         It says, this podcast is absolutely fucking brilliant.
                                         
                                         Well, I mean, I think the problem was with that word there, you know.
                                         
                                         Maybe if he hadn't used that word, it probably would have been alright.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Then again, so it carries on.
                                         
                                         Stumbled across them a few months ago on YouTube, and I've been hooked ever since.
                                         
                                         Then again, that carries on.
                                         
                                         Stumbled across them a few months ago on YouTube and I've been hooked ever since.
                                         
                                         Maybe it's a soft spot for late 20s, early 30s British men
                                         
                                         that have my male heterosexual heart pounding
                                         
                                         and my average-sized cock hard.
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
    
                                         But whatever it is, keep it up
                                         
                                         and subscribe to this nonsense.
                                         
                                         What? I'm sorry?
                                         
                                         What? What? What?
                                         
                                         No, no, go back, go back, go back.
                                         
                                         It's a soft spot for your accents.
                                         
                                         Your accents.
                                         
                                         The Queen and such, you know.
                                         
    
                                         This podcast has more balls
                                         
                                         than the former McDonald's play pit
                                         
                                         which my uncle climbed into with me
                                         
                                         all those years ago
                                         
                                         before they were removed.
                                         
                                         The pit went to the trash
                                         
                                         and my uncle went to prison.
                                         
                                         It's a good review.
                                         
    
                                         It's a good review.
                                         
                                         Thanks. I'm happy with that.
                                         
                                         It's a perfect review.
                                         
                                         Thanks to that, Tim.
                                         
                                         This one's
                                         
                                         from Dave. Dave O.
                                         
                                         David O. This is a Halloween Dave. Dave O. David O.
                                         
                                         This is a Halloween story, apparently.
                                         
    
                                         You ready? Cue music.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         It was a late Tuesday night,
                                         
                                         and I stumbled into my room
                                         
                                         and turned on the light.
                                         
                                         I had been listening to my iPod, so I pulled the headphone out of my ears and threw them on the floor.
                                         
                                         I then hopped into bed, watched TV for around an hour, then turned off the light and went to bed.
                                         
                                         I woke up the next morning. There was a thick fog outside, and it was freezing cold inside my room.
                                         
    
                                         For some reason, my window was ajar.
                                         
                                         I stood up, naked, in the middle of my room and looked down. I saw my iPod headphone wire
                                         
                                         poking out from under the bed, so I picked it up. It was at this moment I discovered the headphones were missing.
                                         
                                         All that remained was the jack and some bare wires.
                                         
                                         Is that it?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         So his brother nicked his headphones.
                                         
    
                                         Is that the story?
                                         
                                         We don't know whether his brother was involved, but possibly.
                                         
                                         Brilliant story. I assume someone crept in in the night and stole his headphones.
                                         
                                         But it could have been a ghost.
                                         
                                         Maybe it's our first dead Yogpod listener, you know?
                                         
                                         What do you mean?
                                         
                                         A ghostly Yogpod listener.
                                         
                                         If he was listening to his iPod with the headphones on,
                                         
    
                                         maybe the headphones turned into ghostly headphones so he could hear,
                                         
                                         and that's why they disappeared.
                                         
                                         Ah.
                                         
                                         But...
                                         
                                         Don't argue.
                                         
                                         I don't get it.
                                         
                                         All right, all right.
                                         
                                         Don't argue, just accept it.
                                         
    
                                         Just accept it, okay?
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         So there we are, that's all the...
                                         
                                         If you're a ghost,
                                         
                                         that's all the emails and stuff we've had.
                                         
                                         You can contact us by
                                         
                                         floating over our heads as we sleep
                                         
                                         and gently caressing our face.
                                         
    
                                         You're listening to the Halloween Yogpod.
                                         
                                         Spooktacular.
                                         
                                         I don't know what that is.
                                         
                                         It's like a ghost, a vampire, just everything.
                                         
                                         It's a vampire ghost.
                                         
                                         There's a long email from someone called Caroline May. Oh, okay. Who's a fan
                                         
                                         of the Yoggpod. Oh, a girl.
                                         
                                         It's a bit long. Is she the crazy
                                         
    
                                         Spanish one? No, no, no.
                                         
                                         Portuguese one. Oh, Portuguese.
                                         
                                         Okay, okay. Sorry if you're listening,
                                         
                                         crazy Portuguese lady. Sorry.
                                         
                                         Sorry, I didn't mean that.
                                         
                                         Most of it is
                                         
                                         like, things like, just useless stuff that people put in emails for no reason.
                                         
                                         Like, hello, I was going to attempt to type an email that did not put me across as some mental Yogpod fan.
                                         
    
                                         But then I thought, the mere fact that I was writing an email seemed to imply that.
                                         
                                         It's true, it's a good point.
                                         
                                         Do you know what I mean?
                                         
                                         That sort of sets the scene for the rest of the rambling, insane true. It's a good point. Do you know what I mean? That sort of sets the scene for the rest of the rambling,
                                         
                                         insane email.
                                         
                                         It's kind of like the emails that I send to Richard Herring or Mike David.
                                         
                                         It's kind of like, hello, I am not crazy.
                                         
                                         You have to say that when you talk to somebody
                                         
    
                                         that you've never talked to before,
                                         
                                         but you hear them over the internet?
                                         
                                         I think she posted
                                         
                                         some comments and stuff
                                         
                                         on our videos and YouTube pages
                                         
                                         and as a result
                                         
                                         one of our even stranger listeners
                                         
                                         has subscribed to her
                                         
    
                                         channel. Oh right, she's got a channel.
                                         
                                         Is she pretty?
                                         
                                         I don't know whether she probably
                                         
                                         is, but I don't know whether she's like What are you talking about? Let's check. I don't know whether she probably is, but I don't know whether she's like...
                                         
                                         What are you talking about?
                                         
                                         Let's check.
                                         
                                         I don't know which one it is.
                                         
                                         Anyway, let's not go there.
                                         
    
                                         This isn't...
                                         
                                         I just want to know if she's pretty.
                                         
                                         That's all.
                                         
                                         Maybe she can contact you on datecraft, Simon.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         Or she could float over my head as i sleep gently caress my face
                                         
                                         um gently caress your face so so what does she what does she have to say oh just just i'm not
                                         
                                         crazy um some her head teacher Had told the school
                                         
    
                                         That Billy Piper
                                         
                                         Was going to come
                                         
                                         And do her A levels
                                         
                                         At the school
                                         
                                         But she never actually did
                                         
                                         Oh no
                                         
                                         Which is a
                                         
                                         Real heartbreaker
                                         
    
                                         Isn't it
                                         
                                         I went to school
                                         
                                         With
                                         
                                         With Neil Warren
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         That's right
                                         
                                         Who's that
                                         
                                         Is that the Hobbit
                                         
    
                                         He's not famous
                                         
                                         He's just a friend
                                         
                                         I don't talk to him anymore
                                         
                                         I don't think I've talked to him since
                                         
                                         Since we were 18
                                         
                                         Okay, what are you talking about?
                                         
                                         13 years ago
                                         
                                         So you went to school with this guy
                                         
    
                                         But you've not spoken to him and he's not famous
                                         
                                         I'm just name dropping
                                         
                                         Someone who isn't famous
                                         
                                         Brilliant, Thank you.
                                         
                                         Susan Beecham, I went to school with as well.
                                         
                                         Famous.
                                         
                                         Is she heir to the Beecham's cough remedy fortune?
                                         
                                         No, no.
                                         
    
                                         This is the Beechams from Bledington.
                                         
                                         Oh, the Bledington Beechams.
                                         
                                         Oh, yes.
                                         
                                         Of course.
                                         
                                         Is there any more Halloween-y sort of stuff we could possibly...
                                         
                                         This is such a rambling podcast.
                                         
                                         It's just bouncing back and forth between...
                                         
                                         A lot like everyone that we've done.
                                         
    
                                         No, most of them have some degree of structure and aren't just half an hour of us bouncing back between trying to think about Halloween.
                                         
                                         They kind of are though, aren't they?
                                         
                                         They kind of are.
                                         
                                         I went to a wedding.
                                         
                                         Did I tell you about the wedding that I went to?
                                         
                                         Yeah, you caught swine flu. I thought I caught
                                         
                                         swine flu, but I didn't actually. One of my
                                         
                                         friends had swine flu and was sneezing everywhere.
                                         
    
                                         And I was feeling really bad
                                         
                                         for like a day, and I thought I might
                                         
                                         have caught it, but in fact, I'm feeling
                                         
                                         a lot better.
                                         
                                         So you're not dying at all?
                                         
                                         I mean, that wasn't really the main thing about the wedding.
                                         
                                         That was a close call.
                                         
                                         So, if you... We should... not dying at all. I mean, that wasn't really the main thing about the wedding. That was a close call. Phew!
                                         
    
                                         So, if you... This is going off on a tangent again.
                                         
                                         If you were a ghost,
                                         
                                         what kind of ghost would you be?
                                         
                                         Well, that's a difficult one.
                                         
                                         You mean, if I...
                                         
                                         I'd be like a vengeful ghost.
                                         
                                         Like, I'd
                                         
                                         kill people.
                                         
    
                                         I'd like...
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         I'd, like, murder people that I didn't like when I was alive.
                                         
                                         Who'd wronged me.
                                         
                                         So what happened?
                                         
                                         You've been wronged?
                                         
                                         Oh, God.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't, like, be a nice ghost.
                                         
    
                                         I wouldn't, like, be Casper.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't be, like...
                                         
                                         I'd be a...
                                         
                                         I mean, if I had to be brought back from the dead,
                                         
                                         there would be a damn good reason for it. You know? Like, I was be a... I mean, if I had to be brought back from the dead, there would be a damn good reason for it.
                                         
                                         You know?
                                         
                                         Like, I was killed, or...
                                         
                                         I'd go around righting the wrongs and stuff.
                                         
    
                                         I'd be like a Lone Ranger-style ghost.
                                         
                                         You'd be the ghost of the Lone Ranger.
                                         
                                         Only you'd, like, kill all of your friends.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Because you're, like, psychotic,
                                         
                                         and you think you've been wronged somehow.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't kill all my friends, dude.
                                         
                                         I'd only kill, like, bad people. I wouldn't kill all my friends, dude. I'd only kill bad people.
                                         
    
                                         I'm like a vigilante ghost, that's all.
                                         
                                         Are you expecting to be murdered?
                                         
                                         Well, no, I mean, you're suggesting...
                                         
                                         Are you expecting to be murdered?
                                         
                                         Because that's kind of what it sounds like.
                                         
                                         Wait, what?
                                         
                                         So you have to elaborate on the story
                                         
                                         unless you want me to just tell you the circumstances.
                                         
    
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         So let's just say
                                         
                                         that you get murdered by someone.
                                         
                                         Someone you know kills you
                                         
                                         and they get away with it.
                                         
                                         They get away with it.
                                         
                                         They make it look like
                                         
                                         an accident.
                                         
    
                                         So, a chandelier
                                         
                                         falls on your head or something.
                                         
                                         But it turns out that he was
                                         
                                         undoing the screws. He or he was undoing the screws.
                                         
                                         He or she was undoing the screws,
                                         
                                         and so it fell on you.
                                         
                                         Right, okay.
                                         
                                         And you come back from the dead as a spirit,
                                         
    
                                         and you're angry, you're vengeful.
                                         
                                         So how are you going to go about getting your revenge and righting the wrongs?
                                         
                                         Well, it depends how much power I have as a ghost.
                                         
                                         So what kind of much power I have as a ghost. So what kind
                                         
                                         of powers do I have? What kind of powers
                                         
                                         are feasible that you would like
                                         
                                         as a ghost that would help
                                         
                                         you in your quest? I mean, for example,
                                         
    
                                         am I stuck to a certain location?
                                         
                                         Like the immediate
                                         
                                         area to where I died? Do I have to walk
                                         
                                         everywhere? Can I
                                         
                                         fly?
                                         
                                         I mean, obviously I can go through walls and no one could
                                         
                                         see me uh unless i like push no hang on i can't put a sheet on psychic people would be able to
                                         
                                         see you right so nothing would be able to see me that's good yeah and you could talk to them
                                         
    
                                         and you could pass on messages that no one would believe so okay um kind of think ghost you're patrick swayze
                                         
                                         and you find a crazy person who is um whoopi goldberg i've not seen ghost what if i'm your
                                         
                                         whoopi goldberg i've not so what happens in the film ghost i mean i this is a really difficult
                                         
                                         question couldn't couldn't i just like why are we why are we choosing ghosts Say okay You're a ghost
                                         
                                         I'm a psychic
                                         
                                         You're a ghost because it's Halloween
                                         
                                         You're a ghost
                                         
                                         I'm a psychic
                                         
    
                                         And you want to pass on a message
                                         
                                         What message would you like to pass on
                                         
                                         That I could tell people
                                         
                                         The thing is though
                                         
                                         Whatever you said they wouldn't believe
                                         
                                         They just think you're a complete nutbag
                                         
                                         No one would believe it.
                                         
                                         People who are in mourning, who are very emotionally fragile, will believe these kind of things.
                                         
    
                                         They won't.
                                         
                                         They won't.
                                         
                                         My mum is like a scientist.
                                         
                                         You've seen cold readings and things.
                                         
                                         He's got a degree in science.
                                         
                                         I mean, my parents don't believe in this stuff.
                                         
                                         They won't believe you if you tell...
                                         
                                         Whatever you say, they won't believe you.
                                         
    
                                         What if you pass on a message?
                                         
                                         You say there was a message from the dead.
                                         
                                         It's something that only you and your parents know.
                                         
                                         They still wouldn't believe you.
                                         
                                         I mean, it would have to be really damn good.
                                         
                                         So how would I know?
                                         
                                         Okay, well, what would it be then?
                                         
                                         What would that message be?
                                         
    
                                         Some, like, deep, dark secret.
                                         
                                         No, it doesn't have to be a deep dark it could just
                                         
                                         be oh and don't put too much cinnamon in your banana bread oh remember that time on south end
                                         
                                         beach when a jellyfish bit me stung lewis's willy and his mother his mother Had to piss over his
                                         
                                         Whoa whoa whoa
                                         
                                         I think that's an urban legend as well
                                         
                                         Propagated by friends
                                         
                                         It's the acid that's in urine
                                         
    
                                         It helps to soothe the pain
                                         
                                         The dumbest thing ever
                                         
                                         So I would do it to you
                                         
                                         If you were stung
                                         
                                         I would just whip it out in a second
                                         
                                         And just start
                                         
                                         I would be drinking as I was a second. I would be drinking
                                         
                                         as I was urinating so I could keep going.
                                         
    
                                         I'd just have this big jug.
                                         
                                         You are disgusting.
                                         
                                         Oh, poor Lewis.
                                         
                                         You've been stung on the face.
                                         
                                         Never mind. I'll sort this out.
                                         
                                         What the fuck, Simon?
                                         
                                         For God's sake.
                                         
                                         Oh, God.
                                         
    
                                         Such a convoluted, like, messed up story.
                                         
                                         It's just not going to happen, is it?
                                         
                                         Ghosts.
                                         
                                         I mean, we've talked about this before,
                                         
                                         but I'm, like, totally sick of the stereotypical supernatural shit
                                         
                                         that people will just accept as real.
                                         
                                         You know, like...
                                         
                                         Vampires are real, Lewis.
                                         
    
                                         Vampires.
                                         
                                         God.
                                         
                                         And werewolves and...
                                         
                                         I knew a girl who was a vampire.
                                         
                                         Did you?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         She wore black and she would bite me.
                                         
                                         That's a vampire.
                                         
    
                                         That's all it is.
                                         
                                         That's a vampire.
                                         
                                         They wear black and they bite people.
                                         
                                         That's what they do.
                                         
                                         The whole undead thing
                                         
                                         is usually a pretty crucial part
                                         
                                         of it and the fangs.
                                         
                                         No, it's a virus.
                                         
    
                                         Vampirism is a virus, Lewis.
                                         
                                         They're not dead.
                                         
                                         It's a virus and also
                                         
                                         they're not allergic to garlic
                                         
                                         and crosses don't work on them
                                         
                                         but
                                         
                                         they can't walk over running water.
                                         
                                         Which is a bit of an awkward
                                         
    
                                         thing to have because it means
                                         
                                         that they can't cross any bridges.
                                         
                                         It's quite terrible. If you're driving
                                         
                                         and you've got GPS, if you're a vampire
                                         
                                         you're going to have special vampire
                                         
                                         GPS sat nav.
                                         
                                         Vamp nav. So it redirects
                                         
                                         you around rivers. But I think
                                         
    
                                         that would be a real problem
                                         
                                         In reality
                                         
                                         Because there would be a whole lot of places
                                         
                                         That vampires can't go
                                         
                                         Because rivers pretty much cover
                                         
                                         Everywhere
                                         
                                         And how do you define a river?
                                         
                                         I mean there's like underground
                                         
    
                                         Water supplies constantly everywhere
                                         
                                         And I mean every town is built on a river
                                         
                                         They'd be like completely screwed all the time
                                         
                                         They'd never be able to go anywhere.
                                         
                                         A lot of vampires live in the desert. That's why you don't see them because they got to be away from the running water
                                         
                                         What? I mean some of these...
                                         
                                         That's why you don't see them
                                         
                                         Also the moon
                                         
    
                                         They're on the moon because there's no running water. There's frozen water
                                         
                                         Well, there might not be but there's no running water So There's frozen water. Well, there might not be. But there's no running water.
                                         
                                         So you have lots of vampires on the moon
                                         
                                         wearing, like, helmets.
                                         
                                         I like the way you just threw that in.
                                         
                                         There might not be.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's like...
                                         
                                         There might not be vampires.
                                         
    
                                         There's no scientific consensus
                                         
                                         whether there's water on the moon.
                                         
                                         Well, there's definitely no running water.
                                         
                                         Well, actually, it's hardly like there is water on the moon.
                                         
                                         There's no garlic, either.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I could part. There's no garlic, either. Yarkpod.
                                         
                                         I am a robot ghost.
                                         
                                         Woo! Woo!
                                         
    
                                         I am a robot ghost.
                                         
                                         Woo!
                                         
                                         You are listening to Yarkpod.
                                         
                                         Woo!
                                         
                                         That's terrible. That's terrible.
                                         
                                         Do you know what my mother said to me the other day?
                                         
                                         No My mother said
                                         
                                         I've come up with the perfect murder
                                         
    
                                         And I'm sorry
                                         
                                         She says yeah I've been thinking about it
                                         
                                         And I've come up with the perfect murder
                                         
                                         Right okay
                                         
                                         So she's been watching a lot of CSI,
                                         
                                         she's been watching a lot of Mors.
                                         
                                         I'm going to have a leg of lamb,
                                         
                                         a frozen leg of lamb,
                                         
    
                                         and I'm going to hit your father
                                         
                                         over the head with it,
                                         
                                         and then we'll cook the lamb for dinner.
                                         
                                         Okay, I think that's been done before, hasn't it?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I said, I'm sure that's like an Agatha Christie.
                                         
                                         That's it.
                                         
                                         And she was like, oh yeah, probably.
                                         
    
                                         But that's how I'm going to do it.
                                         
                                         I was like, oh, okay.
                                         
                                         So, okay, so what's she going to do with the body?
                                         
                                         Well, she'll say like a burglar came in or something, I guess.
                                         
                                         And they'll go, oh, but what about the murder weapon?
                                         
                                         And she'll go, oh, I don't know about any murder weapon.
                                         
                                         Do you fancy some lamb stew, officer?
                                         
                                         Smells good.
                                         
    
                                         And he'll go, oh, thank you. It's lovely.
                                         
                                         And she'll have this big smirk on her face
                                         
                                         as he eats it.
                                         
                                         The thing is, that's fine, isn't it?
                                         
                                         If you want to kill your direct
                                         
                                         spouse.
                                         
                                         Your direct spouse. Not to be confused with an
                                         
                                         indirect spouse.
                                         
    
                                         But what if you wanted to kill someone else?
                                         
                                         Okay. I mean, the thing about your spouse
                                         
                                         is they live in the house with you,
                                         
                                         you're going to be under suspicion,
                                         
                                         aren't you, from the start, and
                                         
                                         you want to have to kill them in the first place.
                                         
                                         What if you wanted to kill someone you hate, who's
                                         
                                         wronged you? Gordon Brown. Say you want to
                                         
    
                                         kill Gordon Brown, assassinate him.
                                         
                                         What you do is, you're at a political
                                         
                                         rally or something, and he's there,
                                         
                                         he's giving a talk or whatever.
                                         
                                         What you do is you creep up behind him
                                         
                                         with a frozen leg of lamb
                                         
                                         you whack him on the back of the head
                                         
                                         you run off and then you roast
                                         
    
                                         the lamb and then you serve it
                                         
                                         all the secret servants
                                         
                                         come and say excuse me I'm pretty sure
                                         
                                         I just saw you kill the Prime Minister
                                         
                                         and you say no it wasn't me
                                         
                                         officer would you like some stew
                                         
                                         okay killing the Prime Minister is something
                                         
                                         that we shouldn't really talk about because
                                         
    
                                         it's terrible, it's terrible, it's terrible treason.
                                         
                                         But also, I mean...
                                         
                                         We'll be arrested.
                                         
                                         He would be a very... I'm talking about like Dexter
                                         
                                         level of killing, you know?
                                         
                                         Dexter obviously plans
                                         
                                         murders and gets away
                                         
                                         with them, but...
                                         
    
                                         He plans, he goes to the butchers early in the morning
                                         
                                         buys that leg of lamb takes it home puts it in the freezer murder here
                                         
                                         i think i think i read something about like the perfect murder and stuff on
                                         
                                         on sa at some point and it was pretty much that the problem is is both not being the last person seen with
                                         
                                         them and disposing of the body so that there's almost nothing that remains so there's no evidence
                                         
                                         that they've even been killed um dexter does that by he did that by like throwing bin bags with their
                                         
                                         corpses in into like the the ocean and like and then they were all found but they eventually found
                                         
                                         all that so that didn't work out too well did it but his idea was to throw them down like a deep
                                         
    
                                         ocean ridge you know but that's a bit difficult to hit you know so he ended up with quite a lot
                                         
                                         of them just sort of being on the edge but also if you're a vampire you probably couldn't do that
                                         
                                         to your victims you couldn't throw them in the water because it's all running water
                                         
                                         the other way of...
                                         
                                         I mean, I guess they're strong vampires,
                                         
                                         so they could probably throw the body
                                         
                                         quite a distance.
                                         
                                         What are you talking about? Where have vampires come into it again?
                                         
    
                                         Why are we talking about vampires again?
                                         
                                         Because it's Halloween. We have to talk about vampires.
                                         
                                         So you've got a vampire serial killer...
                                         
                                         You're talking about murder.
                                         
                                         That's quite a scary subject.
                                         
                                         He's a vampire serial killer.
                                         
                                         He's killed his latest victim
                                         
                                         and to dispose of the body
                                         
    
                                         he wants to throw it into
                                         
                                         the sea.
                                         
                                         But the sea is running water
                                         
                                         so he can't, you know,
                                         
                                         get on a boat
                                         
                                         because that's not allowed.
                                         
                                         Because otherwise he...
                                         
                                         I don't know what happens to him.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, how does running water work?
                                         
                                         I don't know how that works.
                                         
                                         He gets seasick.
                                         
                                         He gets seasick. That's what it means. I mean, if you flush... If? I don't know how that works. You get seasick. You get seasick.
                                         
                                         That's what it means.
                                         
                                         I mean, if you flush the loo, for example,
                                         
                                         if you flush the loo and you're standing near it...
                                         
                                         Well, so long as you're not sitting on it as you flush,
                                         
    
                                         I think it's fine.
                                         
                                         So if a vampire flushes the toilet when he's sitting on it,
                                         
                                         he'll just, like, go poof.
                                         
                                         Who flushes the loo as they're sitting on it
                                         
                                         you get like water
                                         
                                         splashing up on your arse
                                         
                                         nobody would do that
                                         
                                         that's ridiculous
                                         
    
                                         some people might like that
                                         
                                         oh
                                         
                                         it's like they
                                         
                                         it's also a b-day
                                         
                                         as well as a toilet
                                         
                                         it doubles up yeah
                                         
                                         nothing
                                         
                                         nothing
                                         
    
                                         that's far less disgusting
                                         
                                         than some of the things
                                         
                                         you've said today
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         what the hell yeah so the perfect murder because there was remember there was Far less disgusting than some of the things you've said today. So, um...
                                         
                                         What the hell?
                                         
                                         Yeah, so the perfect murder.
                                         
                                         Because remember there was that guy who got rid of his victims
                                         
    
                                         by dissolving them in acid, didn't he?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Or something.
                                         
                                         And he got found out because
                                         
                                         their teeth didn't dissolve
                                         
                                         when he poured them down the drain.
                                         
                                         The teeth were left on the drain.
                                         
                                         I think Jeffrey Dahmer did that.
                                         
    
                                         I'm not sure whether that's
                                         
                                         true or not. I mean, I think it would be quite
                                         
                                         difficult to get hold of the acid, you know, these
                                         
                                         days. Where do you buy it from? You can't really
                                         
                                         buy it very easily or make it.
                                         
                                         Boots. Get a boots.
                                         
                                         Hello, I'd like a vat of acid, please.
                                         
                                         Do you reckon they deliver it to your house like a
                                         
    
                                         sofa, you know, you have to sign for it?
                                         
                                         It's buy three for the
                                         
                                         price of two on Bats of
                                         
                                         Acid.
                                         
                                         But I mean, the thing is,
                                         
                                         if you were doing it like that,
                                         
                                         it's difficult. I think if you wanted to just murder
                                         
                                         one person or something who's really been getting on
                                         
    
                                         your nerves, then it's probably easier
                                         
                                         than if you were like a serial killer, you know.
                                         
                                         I think, if you're gonna...
                                         
                                         What's our general advice
                                         
                                         here on murder? We're not going to give any general advice.
                                         
                                         Don't commit murder, for God's sake.
                                         
                                         Don't kill anyone.
                                         
                                         Certainly don't kill the Prime Minister.
                                         
    
                                         Because if you kill the Prime Minister
                                         
                                         and then you say,
                                         
                                         the Yoggpod, I was listening to them,
                                         
                                         and they said,
                                         
                                         kill the Prime Minister with a leg of lamb,
                                         
                                         we could get into trouble for that.
                                         
                                         Don't throw any lamb-based products at the Prime Minister. If you do kill the Prime Minister with a leg of lamb. So don't do that. Don't throw any lamb based
                                         
                                         products at the
                                         
    
                                         Prime Minister.
                                         
                                         If you do kill
                                         
                                         the Prime Minister
                                         
                                         with a leg of
                                         
                                         lamb, if you do
                                         
                                         it though, if you
                                         
                                         do it, don't
                                         
                                         mention us.
                                         
    
                                         Keep us out of
                                         
                                         it.
                                         
                                         Just don't mention
                                         
                                         the odd pod.
                                         
                                         Okay, okay.
                                         
                                         It'll be our
                                         
                                         little secret.
                                         
                                         Our little
                                         
    
                                         secret.
                                         
                                         Shhh.
                                         
                                         We here in Britain have a very similar
                                         
                                         well not a very similar thing but another
                                         
                                         festival very shortly after Halloween
                                         
                                         which is often sort of overshadowed
                                         
                                         by Halloween because it's so early.
                                         
                                         It's November the 5th, Guy Fawkes night.
                                         
    
                                         Fireworks night.
                                         
                                         And you know we make a much bigger
                                         
                                         we used to make a much bigger deal of that in Britain
                                         
                                         than Halloween but because it comes so quickly after Halloween,
                                         
                                         it kind of gets forgotten, doesn't it?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         In fact, I forgot.
                                         
                                         Even though there's the little rhyme,
                                         
    
                                         remember, remember the 5th of November,
                                         
                                         I forgot.
                                         
                                         I forgot.
                                         
                                         Gunpowder, treason and plot.
                                         
                                         How does that go?
                                         
                                         That's it, that's the whole rhyme.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         But...
                                         
    
                                         I don't know if there's anything happening
                                         
                                         because I'm supposed to write about events
                                         
                                         and I've completely forgot
                                         
                                         that the 5th of November was coming up.
                                         
                                         So where does...
                                         
                                         God damn.
                                         
                                         Where does that all come from?
                                         
                                         I mean, where does Halloween come from?
                                         
    
                                         I mean, we know that Americans won't but we celebrate
                                         
                                         Guy Fawkes night because
                                         
                                         It was the night that which
                                         
                                         Some people tried to blow up the houses of parliament
                                         
                                         And they got found out
                                         
                                         And if they had succeeded it would have like
                                         
                                         You know blown them to the ground or something
                                         
                                         And it's all a bit sort of
                                         
    
                                         We can read it on Wikipedia
                                         
                                         It's quite an interesting little tale
                                         
                                         Of ancient Britain
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
                                         Halloween is from like
                                         
                                         I don't know how it's pronounced
                                         
                                         but it's Samhain
                                         
                                         it's Irish so it's not going to be anywhere
                                         
    
                                         nearly pronounced like that
                                         
                                         it's the end of summer
                                         
                                         and I think they used to have
                                         
                                         bonfires and stuff
                                         
                                         to like chase away the darkness
                                         
                                         and to like celebrate the end
                                         
                                         of the summer. I mean Halloween is like All Hallows Day, it's the day before All Hallows
                                         
                                         Day, it's All Hallows Eve, sorry, and Hallows Day is the day of the saints, which is November
                                         
    
                                         the 1st. It's weird because you have like a really ancient festival
                                         
                                         and then it's just picked up by people as time goes by so it's connected to you know the saints
                                         
                                         quite recently even though the original festival's got nothing to do with the saints
                                         
                                         well that's what happened with christmas though isn't it because christmas originally used to be
                                         
                                         like the celebration day of mithras which was like the religion that was going around before
                                         
                                         christianity but because everyone was celebrating on that day it gradually got you know accepted and
                                         
                                         and like adopted by christmas as like jesus's birthday and stuff on whatever whatever it is. I mean, I guess Thanksgiving
                                         
                                         is like the next
                                         
    
                                         thing coming up, which we don't even fucking
                                         
                                         celebrate.
                                         
                                         We've got nothing to be
                                         
                                         thankful for. Oh god, yes.
                                         
                                         I'm not even sure what that's for. Isn't that
                                         
                                         something to do with the Pilgrim Fathers or something?
                                         
                                         Yeah. Who were like the
                                         
                                         first people that arrived in America?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I think they were going to be killed
                                         
                                         or something by the Indians
                                         
                                         and the Indians
                                         
                                         kind of let them go
                                         
                                         and because of that
                                         
                                         that's what they're giving thanks for
                                         
                                         I don't think that's right at all
                                         
    
                                         I think that's totally wrong
                                         
                                         I think it was originally some religious festival
                                         
                                         for them
                                         
                                         it was like
                                         
                                         because they were
                                         
                                         like a specific
                                         
                                         I mean, they originally came to America to
                                         
                                         escape religious persecution from Britain, didn't
                                         
    
                                         they? They had like, they
                                         
                                         believed like weird stuff.
                                         
                                         And I think
                                         
                                         it was some sort of sacred day to them
                                         
                                         which is, I don't know, it's
                                         
                                         some strange, something strange. Maybe we should
                                         
                                         research this before we talk about it for the next podcast maybe someone can let us know some american can tell us
                                         
                                         why you like halloween and stuff and we should just talk about the british one man we should
                                         
    
                                         talk about this should be like a fireworks night special not a halloween special oh it's too late
                                         
                                         now it's too late we've already done like four ha Halloween specials. Do you know what I mean? In one year.
                                         
                                         And we've
                                         
                                         totally forgotten the British one.
                                         
                                         Damn it.
                                         
                                         I mean, we should talk about Fireworks Night.
                                         
                                         I mean, have you got any good memories
                                         
                                         of that?
                                         
    
                                         Not really, no.
                                         
                                         I remember one time, Fireworks...
                                         
                                         No, Fireworks Night's great. I've got a good friend
                                         
                                         called Dave,
                                         
                                         who is like,
                                         
                                         a bit of a wild,
                                         
                                         wild boy,
                                         
                                         Dave,
                                         
    
                                         and,
                                         
                                         he's the guy who tasered you,
                                         
                                         isn't he? Yeah,
                                         
                                         yeah,
                                         
                                         yeah,
                                         
                                         yeah,
                                         
                                         and,
                                         
                                         he's a really,
                                         
    
                                         really nice guy,
                                         
                                         and one,
                                         
                                         I think this was,
                                         
                                         he was,
                                         
                                         this was when we were about 15 or 16,
                                         
                                         you know,
                                         
                                         quite,
                                         
                                         kind of wild and stuff,
                                         
    
                                         and,
                                         
                                         we went round his,
                                         
                                         his house and fireworks
                                         
                                         stuff so i think his parents had gone to like a bigger thing and david managed to get hold of
                                         
                                         a whole bunch of like proper display fireworks okay because he was a bit of a nutter oh fuck
                                         
                                         and basically what we did was one of them was like a sort of 4,000 gun barrage okay and it looks like
                                         
                                         imagine a wheel of cheese okay but about three or four foot across okay and about a foot deep
                                         
                                         okay so what it looks like is imagine a whole 4,000 tubes like in all next to each other all like wrapped together in a big wheel okay so we basically just
                                         
    
                                         clamped this thing into his workbench his dad's workbench in the garden and we all stood max max
                                         
                                         range which was about 10 yards okay because the garden was pretty fucking small so it was like my god me michael chapman uh dave um and a couple of dave's friends
                                         
                                         like graham and some other guy and we sort of just clamped this display firework in the garden lit it
                                         
                                         and it just went absolutely mental it went mental i mean the workbench was like flying up off the floor.
                                         
                                         There were fireworks being fired out in all directions.
                                         
                                         We just all legged into the house.
                                         
                                         It almost set like a tree on fire.
                                         
                                         It was a disaster. It was an absolute...
                                         
    
                                         It was so scary.
                                         
                                         It was just like a bomb was going off in our garden.
                                         
                                         It lasted about five minutes.
                                         
                                         He could have died.
                                         
                                         It was terrifying.
                                         
                                         And the thing is is he didn't
                                         
                                         just have that he had tons and tons more and you know after the initial shock that of that had
                                         
                                         worn off you know we set up the rest of them which were these some of them were crazy rockets and
                                         
    
                                         some of them were like you know things that just exploded and after we finished them all um
                                         
                                         dave wanted to get rid of all the evidence
                                         
                                         so like his
                                         
                                         you know
                                         
                                         his dad wouldn't find out
                                         
                                         that he brought all these fireworks
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         the plan was to burn them all
                                         
    
                                         okay
                                         
                                         on a bonfire
                                         
                                         threw them in a sea
                                         
                                         but unfortunately
                                         
                                         Dave is a vampire
                                         
                                         put them in a bag
                                         
                                         so
                                         
                                         we got like a metal
                                         
    
                                         one of those metal bins
                                         
                                         you know like
                                         
                                         like a metal grated bin and metal bins You know like Like a metal grated bin
                                         
                                         And we put all the fireworks in and we lit them
                                         
                                         And we were all sort of
                                         
                                         So we put them all in and we lit them
                                         
                                         And it was all fine right
                                         
                                         It was fine and we thought right
                                         
    
                                         This is all getting rid of
                                         
                                         And it was quite cold
                                         
                                         So we were all kind of fairly close to this
                                         
                                         You're huddling around
                                         
                                         Bonfire bin
                                         
                                         And Occasionally kind of fairly close to this boring bonfire bin.
                                         
                                         And occasionally
                                         
                                         a loose firework
                                         
    
                                         would fire out of the bin.
                                         
                                         Okay?
                                         
                                         From one of the ones that hadn't gone off.
                                         
                                         And it would just scare
                                         
                                         the living shit out of us.
                                         
                                         Oh man,
                                         
                                         those were good times. we were very drunk as well
                                         
                                         like shouldn't really have been could have worked that out yeah good times good times that was a
                                         
    
                                         really good fight i mean that's that's one that stands out in my memory because a lot of the time
                                         
                                         i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure the instructions on fireworks say you know light the blue touch
                                         
                                         paper and you know return to a safe distance.
                                         
                                         Not throw them all into an aluminium bin and set fire to them en masse.
                                         
                                         And then stand around it as you're like mashed off your face.
                                         
                                         It's like, do not return to a lit firework. There's all these rules.
                                         
                                         In retrospect, it was very dangerous and foolhardy, and I would recommend no one
                                         
                                         did such a thing ever again. I wish I was exaggerating that story as well. It was really
                                         
    
                                         mental.
                                         
                                         You really could have all died if it blew up and had a firework in your face.
                                         
                                         I mean, the workbench was totally destroyed as well.
                                         
                                         I mean, I've not really played around with fireworks. I usually just have a sparkler, just a little sparkler and I have to wear
                                         
                                         a glove to hold that because I'm careful. That's it. And I usually have like a toffee
                                         
                                         apple or something in the other hand. So I've got a toffee apple and a sparkler. I've got
                                         
                                         my mittens on. This is me at 31, not me as 12.
                                         
                                         You're in heaven. That's all you need, isn't it?
                                         
    
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